Woe betide yee (April 17th)

Overall, we had been pretty train lucky throughout the trip. No real mishaps. This time however, we turned our potential "non train day" into a very much so "train day". Crap.

This pizza in the station was @)(%$&)!@$&)$U TASTY! I mean, it says it!

It all began with a mistake, of course. A mistake on me? A mistake on ted for listening to me? A mistake on the Dutch for the one time we really needed it, failing on their so-called sign zealotry. At any rate, I thought a stop that was indeed our stop, wasn't due to the complete lack of signs that said it was, and a sign that was in the exact same format as other city signs , saying something completely different. Argh.

At any rate, It's given me yet another typing session to get caught up with my blogging shenanigans.

Like I was saying, we're at last finally on our way to Antwerp. From there we'll be staying in the quaint little town of Gent, where I hope will be a place of checking out some of the local colors of red, dark, and light... beer of course! Local breweries ho!... errr..

Well, at least we got in town I suppose. Arriving at 5, we set out into Ghent to find our hotel. After another half an hour or so of wandering "do you have maps?" "NO!". We finally reached our destination... from the opposite end. Finally circling across the block, we managed to finally get into our hotel room, which was very nice.

Apples influence extends everywhere. iphones and macbooks are the rage in Europe.


idk, it looks nice

After a short break, we set out and explored the local area. Deciding it would be a prudent decision to change the train reserve the following morning (which would force us to wake up at 5) the two of us walked down the canals to the larger train station.

"All trains to Paris are FULL. No change!"
"!*@&"

Ghent had its fair share of big churches, a common sign you're in Europe

And big streets

Walking BACK, hunger was immanent. So the need for food was dire. Seeing as how we had to probably sleep very soon (sigh.) we settled for a local restaurant. Alas... we only settled for 1 beer

that is, one liter of beer.. mmmmmm. Never being much of a light beer fan, I had always kind of scoffed at these brighter relatives of the rich dark beers I preferred. Traveling through europe changed my perception as there were actually decent light beers, no linenkugels, miller, budwiser or coronas in sight. Praise be to the gods.

Due to the misfortune of the train time table, there was a rapid scurry back to the hotel, and a swift need for sleep. See you in 5 hours.